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In his blunt and engaging manner, visionary entrepreneur Dwight Carlson has insightful and provocative things to say about leadership, communication and team development, and motivation. We argue that Carlson is an "entrepreneurial leader" who has learned how to create an environment that fosters innovation, hard work, a sense of fun, and "team spirit" and which results in highly motivated and productive staff. At the same time, we recognize that not all entrepreneurs necessarily share Carlson's "bravado. " Nevertheless, his example as founder and CEO of several high-tech start-up companies sheds light on the unique contours of entrepreneurial human resource leadership.Carlson is the chairman and CEO of Coherix, which he founded in 2003. In the 20 years prior, he founded and served as CEO of Perceptron, a company that developed and introduced laser-based metrology for the automotive industry. Carlson also co-founded and was CEO of Xycom, which created the fi rst microcomputer for self-service gas-pump dispensing used throughout the world.Carlson is the founder and chairman of PEMA (a manufacturing alliance), and he previously co-founded and chaired the Auto Body Consortium. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and is chairman of the Michigan Innovation Certifi cate Deposit Advisory Board.A former chairman of the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, Carlson co-chaired the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing, served on the advisory board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and was on the National Advisory Board of the Engineering College of the University of Michigan. CoherixCoherix is a leader in 3D machine vision. They market innovative products to detect defects and measure surfaces for precision parts where even a micron matters. Coherix designs high-speed, non-contact measurement systems offering superior inspection solutions to lower customers' operating costs, while improving quality. They enable customers to certify their manufacturing process in a short period, which decreases time to market for new product introductions. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Coherix was honored by Ford Motor Company with its prestigious Henry Ford Technology Award for developing ShaPix 3D High Defi nition Holography, addressing the company's strong need for its Powertrain. In addition, they created ThermalSentry™, a high-accuracy, noncontact, area coverage, body temperature monitoring system to detect SARS and infl uenza victims, including those who have swine fl u, in real time.

This paper is a progress report on the development of an undergraduate course in environmental design and manufacturing. The importance of the topic is clear from National Academy of Engineering statements regarding the need to Incorporate content on sustainable technology. The multidisciplinary team includes academic faculty from engineering, science, liberal studies, and business in collaboration with industry partners. The team's approach is to create a case-based course by adapting existing educational modules from Ford Motor Company. The group has received National Science Foundation funding for this project (DUE-0511322), and the project is currently in Its beginning phases.

Informed by the growing literature on narrative and embodied approaches to the study of leadership, this article explores Theodore Roosevelt's conservation leadership as mediated by photographs, cartoon images, and his own writings and speeches. It argues that Roosevelt embodied his story about the natural world and the place of ''man'' in it through five different but related roles or personas: as proponent of ''the strenuous life,'' as cowboy, as Rough Rider, as hunter, and naturalist. It presents a critical analysis of Roosevelt's conservation leadership that draws upon historical research, feminist and eco-feminist critique, and concepts from the field of organizational leadership including the ''Virtual Leader Construct.'' As such, the article makes a contribution to our historical understanding of Roosevelt, contemporary theorizing about leadership as a narrated and embodied practice, visual and esthetic approaches to the study of leadership, and to the emerging field of environmental leadership.